From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 114EDA04DB; Thu, 15 Oct 2020 15:12:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED3691E8C3; Thu, 15 Oct 2020 15:12:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga07.intel.com (mga07.intel.com [134.134.136.100]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE4741E8BF for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2020 15:12:34 +0200 (CEST) IronPort-SDR: cQ0OtEaU3Zxb7IMrxPNZQGG20GRNk+7RQCV9OvSw8fiTYpmB7jnWQygZZtXI1FkGCe9woYMOAU IVtiuA3xu0Mg== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6000,8403,9774"; a="230540427" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.77,379,1596524400"; d="scan'208";a="230540427" X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga004.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.38]) by orsmga105.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 15 Oct 2020 06:12:31 -0700 IronPort-SDR: YhYTEJemmiMBccPPiRT9FCW9+nKBPtY5kw0vaRl1JPMRU10HPA2wMCB6cnZm+mXBE2qQVn/Kz7 uAT3YpFDRsQA== X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.77,379,1596524400"; d="scan'208";a="464291136" Received: from klaatz-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.252.18.150]) ([10.252.18.150]) by orsmga004-auth.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 15 Oct 2020 06:12:28 -0700 To: Ciara Power , dev@dpdk.org Cc: viktorin@rehivetech.com, ruifeng.wang@arm.com, jerinj@marvell.com, drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com, bruce.richardson@intel.com, konstantin.ananyev@intel.com, Anatoly Burakov , John McNamara , Marko Kovacevic References: <20200807155859.63888-1-ciara.power@intel.com> <20201015103814.253636-1-ciara.power@intel.com> <20201015103814.253636-3-ciara.power@intel.com> From: Kevin Laatz Message-ID: Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 14:12:25 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20201015103814.253636-3-ciara.power@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-GB Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 02/18] doc: add detail on using max SIMD bitwidth X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On 15/10/2020 11:37, Ciara Power wrote: > This patch adds documentation on the usage of the max SIMD bitwidth EAL > setting, and how to use it to enable AVX-512 at runtime. > > Cc: Anatoly Burakov > Cc: John McNamara > Cc: Marko Kovacevic > > Signed-off-by: Ciara Power > > --- > v6: Updated enum value. > v4: Updated docs to reflect renamed enum. > v3: > - Added enum value for disabling use of max SIMD to doc. > - Added entry to HowTo index. > --- > doc/guides/howto/avx512.rst | 36 +++++++++++++++++++ > doc/guides/howto/index.rst | 1 + > doc/guides/linux_gsg/eal_args.include.rst | 16 +++++++++ > .../prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst | 32 +++++++++++++++++ > 4 files changed, 85 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 doc/guides/howto/avx512.rst > Docs LGTM. Acked-by: Kevin Laatz